The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Weekly News Summary.

The recent musical festivals at Brattle-
boro and Rutland were successful.
GENERAL MANAGER HOBART has returned
to St. Adams, much improved in health
ID. A. CLIFFORD, a widely-known photo
grapher of St. Johnsbury, died Sunday,
aged sixty years
REV. f. p. WILD has resigned his pastor
ate of the Newport Congregational church
and it has been accepted
REV. d. NJ. KNAPPEN, a retired clergyman
at Castleton has been stricken with paraly-
sis and remains unconscious.
Ex-Governor HoLBRooK of New York is
to preside at the dedication of the Brattle-
boro soldiers monument June H.
DANIEL Z. WALwoRTH, prominent citi-
zen of Coventry and member of the legis-
lature in 1872 died last Saturday.
IT is announced that the railroad COM
mssioners will begin on June Il thorough
inspection of all the railroads in the state.
DURING the thunderstorm, last Friday,
lightning struck Smith Pease's barn at West
Bolton and damaged it to the amount of $50.
DIR. NJ. ID. JEWELL, formerly of st. Al
bans, and at one time partner of DR..
Comegys, died on the 30th ult. at Dowagiac,
Mich.
THE hardest rain-storm in thirty years
visited Jericho last Friday and carried
away several bridges The loss is estimated
at $1,000.
A HEAVY thunder-shower passed over
Richford last Friday, and several highway
bridges were swept away and roads badly
damaged.
THE foundation of the Bennington monu-
ment will cover the site of the first printing
Office in Vermont, which was conducted by
Anthony Haswell
The trustees of the University of Ver-
mont have issued circulars embodying a
scheme for raising the permanent fund of
the College to 100000.
HENRY MORSE found a fifty -eight-pound
cannon-ball in the bank facing the lake on
Battery Park, Burlington. 1t is thought to
be Of English manufacture.
THE directors of the Bennington Battle
Monument Association have voted to ask
the Grand Lodge of Masons of Vermont to
lay the cornerstone August 10th.
EDITOR GIBBS of the st. Adams MeSSen-
ger has gone to Glendon, Mimi, where
Mrs. Gibbs and her son and daughter spent
the winter. They will return in about two
weeks.
The Knights of Labor have bought the
Rutland SATURDAY ETpreSS from Jewett p.
Cain, and propose to start a daily and
weekly paper in the interests of the Knights
of Labor.
AMONG the late patents granted are the
following: James II. Donahue of Swanton,
a buckle Henry Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury, machine for the manufacture OF
pulp ware
H. E. FOLSOM is appointed superintendent
of the Passumpsic division of the Boston &
Lowell road as the Connecticut & Passump-
sic is to be known hereafter. His Office will
be at Lyndonvlle.
LIEUTENANT A. S. CUMMINGS of the Fourth
United States Artillery has been appointed
military instructor at the University of Yer
mont He held the same position for severa
years previous to 1882.
THOMAS ROGERS, aged about sixty and
unmarried, living in the east part of Man
chester, was found Thursday night lying in
a brook with his head under water. 1t is
supposed to be case of suicide.
Much damage was done in the fields anC
gardens of Manchester by hai-storm the
Goth ult. The ground was white with hail
and in some places heaps ten inches deeI
were found when the storm ended.
CHIEF OF POLICE BARNEY KELLEY of st
Adams has been presented by his friend:
with two sets of patent nickel-plated hand
cuffs, pair of patent shackles, two sets o
twisters, billy and police-whstle.
CARRICK BROTHERS of st. Johnsbury hav,
contracted to furnish fine granite monu
ment to be placed over the grave of Mrs
Anna Marsh at Hinsdale, n. H., the founde
of the Brattleboro asylum for the insane.
FRED G.. r. GORDON, a clerk in the Man
chester On. h post-office, has been an
pointed postal clerk on the St. Adams an'
Boston run, to succeed John b. Pike o
Lebanon, who has been in the service TO
twenty years.
HoYT SwANYAR, aged eighteen years, VIII
has been at work for Alonzo Alger of Rich
mond, while hunting on the 30th, acct
dentally shot himself the charge of sho
striking the jugular vein in his neck. II
lived only few minutes.
THE summer clearinghouse, two and
half stories high, with large addition anC
barn, belonging TO George A. Sawyer, OF
Maple Grove Farm West Newbury, wer'
completely destroyed by fire on the 4th
Loss $1,000; insured for $1,000
THE stockholders of the Brattleboro 8
Whitehall railroad held their annual meet
ing the I'd instant and reelected the oil,
board of directors, with a single exception
G. F. Thompson was chosen president, E. L
Waterman vice-president, j. l.. Martin
clerk and George S. Dowley treasurer.
DIR. BUTTON, who claims to be mind
cure physician and has three hundred youn
men as students in Boston, says he is gon
to bring them to Rutland and found there tn
Vermont Medical College, which will hav
valuable buildings when the people wan
them enough to pay for them.
The University of Vermont nine went t
Northfied last Saturday to play the retur
game in the series with Norwich Universt
team in the contest for the collegiate chan
pionship of the state. They marched dow
to the depot in the morning with fiyin
colors, but when they returned, beaten by
score of twenty-three to six, they came Il
the hill one at time, and were seen Il
more that night burlington Free Press.
REvILo HOWARD, aged ffty-ive, a JamaiC
farmer, shot his wife fatally, it is though
on the I'd instant. Howard has been sic
some time and requested his wife to go to
shed with message for the hired maj
During her absence he loaded a rifle an
discharged it at her on her return. The ba
passed through her left hand and lung, an
was removed from her back by the phys
clans. The cause of the shooting is attribute
by the neighbors to insanity, though ii
physicians fail to find any traces. Son
pronounce it case of jealousy.
A. f. MORGAN, son of the late Dav
Morgan of West Rutland, is believed
have been murdered near Cohen's Corner
S. c., few weeks ago, and Carson Whit
negro, has been arrested on suspicion
having committed the crime. Mr.. Norge
had been canvassing on the rice plant
tions. When the body was found the poe
cts of the dead mans clothes were turnt
inside out, showing that robbery was Il
motive of the murder. Mr.. Morgan lie
Rutland about ten years ago. He lived
Atlanta, Ga, for some time, and then we
further south. He was a member of Coz
pany III, Fourteenth Vermont Regiment,
the war.
AT the annual meeting of the State Ba
fist Sunday-school convention, held at
Loot ha al